I met Shah Muhammad Rais in Southall on a Friday afternoon in early August. It was the season of heat waves, the ...

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather ...

Traditionally, it was the shaman who swallowed or sniffed intoxicating plants as a way of gaining access to the world ...

Parker noted a bevy of plays dealing with Prohibition, the ‘Irish question’ (‘what a rough day it will be for the drama when ...

I don’t know when this tradition began – perhaps with the first comic movie that didn’t work – but it’s certainly on clunky ...

David Foster Wallace said that he spoke like ‘Jimmy Stewart on acid’ (though Lynch’s addictions were the diner-appropriate ...

Dread Beat an’ Blood, Johnson’s second book of poems, appeared in 1975. It includes ‘Doun de Road’, which addressed the rise ...

Grangemouth opened in the mid-1920s to refine petroleum shipped to the docks from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s oilfields: ...

Conor Gearty has died at the age of 67. He was a founder member of Matrix chambers and a professor of human rights ...

One slogan used to promote the hotel protests on social media, often emblazoned over a Union Jack or St George’s ...

Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The ...

Starting out on his quest into his family history, Joe Dunthorne doesn’t know what to ask his grandmother about ...